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Membership & Insurance Renewals Due 1st May 2012

Please note membership and insurance renewals are due 1st May 2012.  For all Samurai School and Kindy students who joined before the 1st January 2012 are required to renew membership and insurance – cost £15 per student.  Students who joined after the 1st January 2012, your first renewal is 1st May 2013. All adult students are...

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Carpark Resurfacing 3rd April

Please note that the carpark at Greenfields is being resurfaced Monday 2nd April and Tuesday 3rd of April.  Should works run over schedule it may not be possible to park onsite Tuesday evening. Classes will run as normal over the Easter period. Tweet This Post Use Facebook to Comment on this Post

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March Notices – No Classes 13/03, Grading 27/03

No Classes 13th March Please note there will be no classes on Tuesday 13th March as Winterbourne have no hall/rooms available for us.  To save you adjusting your standing order for March, we can offer a refund or credit £4 towards your child’s next grading or merit-badge.  If we don’t hear from you we...

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No Classes 13th March 2012

Classes for Tuesday 13th March 2012 are cancelled – Greenfields are unable to accomodate us. Tweet This Post Use Facebook to Comment on this Post

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Senior Instructors Bujinkan Members

I am absolutely delighted to receive membership and diplomas for both Ryan Lloyd and myself in Bujinkan Budo Taijutsu from our teacher’s teacher, ninja grandmaster Masaaki Hatsumi. Although Ryan and I have practised ninjutsu concepts for many years, officially it has been under the guise of Mr Bo Munthe’s Mu Te Ryu program; Mr Munthe’s own...

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Samurai School Turns Seven

It was just 7 short years ago, when I returned to England after a year back home in Australia, and started the Mu Te Shin Dojo teaching Bo Munthe’s Ninpo Goshinjutsu training of Mu Te Ryu.  This was also the birth of the Samurai School Martial Arts for Kids program which was/is my own child...

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Happy New Year

Tonight the Samurai School resumes after a wonderful Xmas and New Year break. Normal class times continue as in 2011. 6 – 7pm.  Samurai Kindy (5 & 6 years), Samurai School (7-16yrs. white, yellow, & orange belts), and trial sessions. 7 – 8pm.  Samurai School (7-16yrs. Green, Blue, Purple, Brown). 7 – 8:30pm.  Samurai School Black...

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Xmas Break

Xmas break: Our last training will be December 13th and returning for first training on January 10th. Please note classes on December 6th will be in Room 1 at the end of the corridor. Its a bit early yet, but what the hey, Merry Xmas! Tweet This Post Use Facebook to Comment on this...

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Lessons from a fallen ninja

My journey took me by the memorial website of Mark Hodel today.  Mark was a pioneer and major contributor to ninjutsu in the US and no doubtedly influenced many world wide.  Whilst I had heard the name I wasn’t too familiar with Mark and his philosophies on training.  After reading an interview with him...

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Practise is a must!

Before we begin please note that for simplicity of writing, as well as reading, I use the term ‘ninjutsu’ as a general term for our training in this article; when really our training sits somewhere in the middle of ninjutsu and jujutsu.  To understand authentic ninjutsu you need to get yourself on a plane...

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